When Mr Brown took over, he strove (too hard, some of his confidants now admit) to distinguish himself from Mr Blair: to seem serious where Mr Blair was suave, humble where his predecessor was hubristic.
His "rustic, farmhand appearance," in the words of one critic, "made no physical concession to princeliness," as was often the custom, and in speaking the verse he strove for clarity over poetry.
Lincoln himself inclined in spirit toward the Conservatives, but he had friends among the Radicals as well, and he strove to maintain his leadership over both.
In order to build up his army, he strove to gain a monopoly over the cotton and olive oil trade of the Levant, which Jabal Nablus fueled.
Alerted to the threat, Microsoft strove over a period of approximately four years to prevent middleware technologies from fostering the development of enough full-featured, cross-platform applications to erode the applications barrier.
He asks Sanford if he's dumb enough to still be mulling it, and Sanford smartly says that he is not quite that dumb, saying that he wants to be the best representative of the First District that he can be, really strive over the next two years to not run away and sleep with other districts, in other states.
Sure, funny and stirring things happen on Facebook and Twitter, but their protocols, which stress accountability and striving over anonymity and play, tend to make social exchanges routine.
This is a man who does his utmost, striving over the weeks and months to do the best for the community.
The judge concluded, for instance, that Microsoft had maintained its monopoly power over operating software through anticompetitive means, ruthlessly striving over four years to crush any potential threat to its domination over operating system software.
The secretary general of the International Red Cross, Elhadj As Sy, who visited Malawi and Zimbabwe last week, said: "Much more needs to be done to support communities to survive and strive over the coming months.
